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H. MUNDELL.

HAIR PIGKER.

No. 390,694. Patented Oct. 9, 1888.

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HARRIS MUNDELL, OF ROYALTON, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT BROWN, OF SAME PLACE.

HAIR-PICKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,694, dated October 9, 1888.

Application filed March 13, 1888. Serial No. 267,102. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRIS MUNDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Royalton, in the county of Morrison, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pickers, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to machines for picking, shaking up, and cleaning hair to be used for plastering, upholstering, 850., and also hair that has been used in stuffing horse-collars, saddles, 850., and render it as good as new hair for the same purpose; and the objects of my improvement are to produce a simple and inexpensive machine to pick bunched or other hair and remove the dust therefrom. I accomplish these objects by the machine illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whieh Figure 1 is a perspective view of a partlyopened machine constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

In said drawings, A represents a rectangular trough-shaped box having one end open at a for the escape of the material acted upon. Adjacent to that end there is mounted transversely across said box a cylinder, B, preferably of wood, having projecting from its surface rows of spikes b, or teeth, to engage with the hair fed into the machine. This cylinder has its shaft mounted in suitable hearings in the edge of the box, and upon one end of said shaft a small pulley, b", is secured to revolve it rapidly. Adjacent to the path traveled by the spikes I) there is secured transversely across the box A a fiat board or card body, 0, having spikes or teeth 0, that extend alongside of the paths traveled by the spikes b of the cylinder, so that they will together untangle and open the hair passing between them.

In the rear of the card-body a fan-blower, D, is mounted upon a shaft retained transversely across the box in suitable bearings secured thereto, and upon one end of said shaft is secured a small pulley, (P, to revolve it rapidly. The air required for the fan can enter the box A either through eyes 6 in the sides or in the top of the cover E of the box. Said cover has also an opening, e in the top thereof, substantially over the cylinder B, through which the hair is introduced into the machine, and to direct said hair into the passage between the flat card-body O and said cylinder there is pendent from the under side of the cover, in line with the rear edge of the opening 6, a guide board, f, that extends across the cavity of said cover and has its bottom edge directly in line with the upper edge of the card-body G. Said cover is hinged atf to one. end of the box A to facilitate access to the interior.

To givea rapid motion to the picking-cylinshaft there is a handle, by which it can be revolved. Upon the pulley G is placed a belt, H, that passes also around the pulley I) of the picking-cylinder and in contact (or if a round belt is used it may be around) with the pulley d of the fan. well opened by the spikes of the cylinder and card-body and winnowed or its dust removed by the current of air forced by the fan of the machine, and, issuing from the orifice a, falls in a loose heap on the floor in front of that end of the machine. It can thus be used for harness-work, such as stuffing collars, saddles, upholstering, plasterers work, 820., and for other purposes for which hair is used.

Having now fully described myinvention, I

claim 1. The combination of a box having a discharge-opening at the front end and a hinged cover, and within said box a spiked solid cylinder,a flat card-body provided with spikes, 0

and a fan-blower in the rear of said spiked card-body, with means to revolve said cylinder and fan, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a trough-shaped box The hair operated upon is thus 75 having a discharge-opening at one end, and body, substantially as and for the purpose dewithin said box a spiked cylinder, a spiked scribed. 10 card-body, and a fan-blower in the rear of In testimony whereofIaflix my signature in. said card-body, and means to revolve said presence of two witnesses.

5 cylinder and fan, with a cover having an HARRIS 1\'[UNDELTJ.

opening in the top over the spiked cylinder, \Vitnesses: and a gnide-board adjacent to said opening JOHN IIAGGBERU,

and over the upper edge of the spiked card ANDREW C. ROBERTSON. 

